He owned a "pistol cane," which he carried about with him loaded; but when he went away, he accidentally left it behind, and without explaining to Peter that it was different from ordinary canes.
So, one afternoon a few days later, Peter went out to Keyser's farm to look at some stock, and he picked up the cane to take along with him.
When he got to Keyser's, the latter went to the barnyard to show him an extraordinary kind of a new pig that he had developed by cross-breeding.
"Now that pig," said Keyser, "just lays over all the other pigs on the Atlantic Slope.

Take him any way you please, he's the most gorgeous pig anywheres around.

Fat! Why, he's all fat! There's no lean in him.
He ain't anything but a solid mass of lard.

Put that pig near a fire, and in twenty minutes his naked skeleton'd be standing there in a puddle of grease.

That's a positive fact.